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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the President of Brazil, recognized for his social policies and focus on poverty alleviation.

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"increasing investments and cooperation in matters of renewable energies and critical minerals is at the core of the pioneering agreement"
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"I want to tell U.S. President Donald Trump that we don't want a new Cold War."
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"I want to tell the US President Donald Trump that we don’t want a new Cold War."
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"I am convinced that Brazil-US relation will go back to normalcy after our conversation."
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"The world doesn’t need more turbulence, it needs peace."
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"I believe that if Maduro has to be trialled, he has to be trialled in his country, not trialled abroad."
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"It has to be solved by the people of Venezuela, and not by foreign interference."
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"We cannot accept that a head of state of one country could invade another country and capture the president."
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"I want to tell the US President Donald Trump that we don’t want a new Cold War."
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"We are two men of 80 years of age, so we cannot play around with democracy."
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"The world doesn’t need more turbulence, it needs peace."
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"We hope to expand and strengthen comprehensive cooperation in the economy, critical minerals, energy transition, and more."
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"Our focus is to ensure humanitarian assistance, the restoration of basic services, support for displaced people, and aid for reconstruction."
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"the workers at the site in the eastern state of Bahia were operating under 'slavery-like conditions.'"
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"I have asked the US to send Ramagem back to Brazil so that he can serve his prison sentence."
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"We cannot wake up every morning and go to bed every night with a tweet from a president threatening the world and declaring wars."
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"We cannot wake up every morning and go to bed every night with a tweet from a president threatening the world and declaring wars."
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"We cannot wake up every morning and go to bed every night with a tweet from a president threatening the world and declaring wars."
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"Lords of War."
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"stop acting like emperors and waging war on poorer countries."
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"To be progressive is to defend a reformed multilateralism, where the rules work for everyone."
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"What we want is to talk and see if we can find a solution to strengthen the democratic process in the world, so that we don't allow any setbacks."
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"The government continues monitoring the situation in order to provide all the necessary assistance."
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"We don’t know if the visit will help, but it’s more likely to help than doing nothing."
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"What they are doing is building a case, even if unfounded, to justify the later adoption of tariffs."
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